Denver had quickly traded frontier violence for ordinary commercial civilization.

Evidence

Denver is no longer the Denver of Hepworth Dixon. A shooting affray in the street is as rare as in Liverpool, and one no longer sees men dangling to the lamp-posts when one looks out in the morning! It is a busy place, the entrepôt and distributing point for an immense district, with good shops, some factories, fair hotels, and the usual deformities and refinements of civilization. — Isabella L. Bird, A Lady’s Life in the Rocky Mountains, 157

Categorization

• CANDY: Great tweetable line: no more men dangling from lamp-posts when you look out in the morning.
• XREF: Connects to the reader’s interest in volatile miner/pioneer passions and the era’s vigilante justice.